Dreadlands not as popular on Green vs live

[Danth]

Many if not most original servers were dramatically more heavily populated than P99 is. Couple that with the original servers being less top-heavy as mentioned above and the reason for the original game feeling more spread out becomes immediately apparent: necessity. Can't stuff 200 people into Guk and still find stuff to level off of. On Green during the initial launch rush where you had enough low-level players that folks had no choice but to go to less-used areas. Otherwise P99's leveling population is small enough that most the groupers can stick to the zones with the best experience rates leaving it mainly to solo and duo players to explore the rest of the game world.

It's not all bad. P99's population is closer to what the game was designed for. Personally, I don't particularly wax nostalgic for the days of a full group camping maybe two rooms in a dungeon with 20 min of waiting between cycles. I might also on occasion miss seeing groups in Lake of Ill Omen or similar areas but perhaps overall it's a fair trade.

Danth

[cd288]

Originally Posted by NPC [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know exactly why, DL was good exp in groups for 40th level characters. Tons of people did not have 50th level characters when Kunark dropped on Live. Thats why. You always found 40th level groups in DL, then DL is good exp. But the extra old world ZEM's made it too easy to level to 50 on Green. Those old world ZEM did not exist pre-Kunark on live, they dropped after like Velious. Plus those old world ZEM precent boost seemed way bigger an more abundant on Green than live as well, FYI.
Also, most servers people did not figure out they could kill town guards for great exp either, only guards I ever saw camped on live was in Nek forest, that was it.
After Kunark dropped on Green, I ran out my 40th level alts LFG in DL an all I saw were 47th-50th level groups. DL is terrible exp for those levels,

Nah people camped guards a lot. The difference was that people playing non evil races were much more reluctant to kill guards of other non evil factions because people didn’t know a ton about whether you’d need that faction eventually for something. Now everyone knows what class will need what factions and when, so if you know you don’t need Qeynos or Kaladim for example, you’ll find a good/neutral race killing Qeynos or Kaladim guards etc.

[BiG SiP]

autists firsts

[Castle2.0]

With high levels camping gobbie rings, LOIO is a great place to be for your 20s. High level buffs right there.

[JayDee]

I am alone in Overthere right now.. Yikes

[zaldaben]

Originally Posted by kaluppo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I discovered EQ back in October 2000 when I joined the Tribunal server. By the time I reached lvl 20. Kunark had been out quite awhile. The hot spot in those days was sarnak fort groups from 20-30, FM or OT groups from 30-40 and Dreadland groups outside KC from 40-50. I remember hill group 1, HG2, HG3, ruins 1, ruins 2, ect.

I spent my entire 40's in pickup groups outside KC back then. I wondered if when Kunark was released on Green if that would be the case here. It clearly is not. Is CoM that much better and we just didn't know it back then? Just curious as to why LoiO and DL are more solo/BYOG zones here when they were very much pickup group friendly back in the day.

on live everyone wasnt fully decked out in planar gear by lvl 46 or had 4-5 lvl 50's with all the best gear you could buy either.